they said, you know, we're whoa looking for emma goldman. she first thought she could get away with it. she said, oh i'm a swedish maid or nanny or something. the police scoured the apartment not know s it was her. this is her account, i should say. finally she was convinced that she should give herself up and she did. she was arrested. she was never implicated in playing a part in the assassination. >> did anybody pay her for the interview? >> i don't -- she never gave the interview, so i don't think she got paid. did they pay for interviews back in those days? >> i think sometimes they did. >> everything in the book sounds a lot like today. >> that was one of the things when i started the book, i was really looking for an interesting story in an interesting time. it was really only in the process of doing research that i began to see these parallels in a newspaper that reviewed the book, referred to these early parallels with what's going on. you see it with the an arkists of that time. they had decided -- actually had a meeting in the 188

. >> what happened to emma goldman? where was she on the day of the assassination attempt which turned out to be successful? did she know about this? had she been close to leon czolgosz? >> she delivered a speech that she had heard in may of 1901. they met only once after that. czolgosz had tractor down in chicago. he turned up on her doorstep and introduced himself and said he wanted to learn more about anarchism. she was on her way to the train station that day and she rode with him to the train station. there are varying accounts, but i think she felt a little bit of sympathy for him. she may have thought he was a bit strange. at the train station, she handed him off to some friends of hers and said can you look after this guy? he seems interested in learning more about anarchism. she apparently knew nothing about the assassination in advance. she said that she only learned of it -- she had gotten a job selling paper and was on a sales call. she learned the president had been assassinated, but she did not know who ha

emma goldman, anarchist leader, also went to prison for her opposition to the war. more than 500 american conscientious objectors were jailed during the war like these two men at fort riley, arkansas. in germany, the great radical rosa luxemburg went to prison for her opinions. in france, a staunch opponent of the war, which he saw coming and spoke out repeatedly as he saw a drawing closer was the socialist leader jean jurist who is assassinated by a right wing -- right wing nationalist three years before the war began. in england, the country's leading philosopher bertrand russell was to my mind the most eloquent of all the war opponents. and i think what i like about russell so much is that he was so honest about the conflict in his own feelings. but he read you something where he describes his state of mind as the war began. he describes himself very poignantly as being quote tortured by the patriotism. i desired the defeat of germany as ardently as any retired colonel. angwin is very nearly the strongest emotion i possess and then appearing to senate decided suc